Base-ball mitt.



PATENTED NOV. 20, 1906.

J. GAMBLE. BASE BALL MITT. APPLICATION FILED APR.12. 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN GAMBLE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BASE-BALL NHTT.

No. 836,378. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Nov. 20, 1906. Application filed April 12, 1906. Serial No. 311,313.

To all whom, it may concern: and is only overcome by constant usein Be it known that I, JOHN GAMBLE, a citiother words, until the glove becomes thorzen of the United States, residing at Philaoughly broken in. In order to obviate these delphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain objections, I form the pad in the manner new and useful Improvements in Base-Ball shown in the accompanying drawings, in Mitts, of which the following is a specificawhich I have shown at 3 a pad, of felt, comtion. posed of one or more layers of uniform thick- My invention relates to improvements in ness throughout and shaped to have the exbase-ball mitts or gloves; and the object of terior edge conform to the shape of the glove. the invention is to provide a glove which will Upon the palm side of the glove and extendhave a firm outer edge Without its being too ing around in proximity to the said outer rigid and the pocket of which will be of a soft edge for a suitable distance toward the cenand yielding nature, allowing the ball to sink ter is located a filling 4, of loose wool or cotdeeply and the force or impact of the ball be ton, which is covered and held in place by a taken up by the walls of the outer rim or covering 5, of canvas, muslin, or the like. edge. prefer to continue this covering around and With these and other objects in view the inward on the back side of the pad the edges invention includes the novel features of conbeing stitched together through the substruction hereinafter described, and particustance of the pad.

larly pointed out in the claim. Having thus described my invention, what The invention is illustrated in the accom I claim is panying drawings, in which- A pad for base-ball mitts, comprising a Figure 1 is a plan view, partly broken body composed of felt, a ring of loose padaway, and Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional ding material upon one face of the body porview on line in a: of Fig. 1. tion and a cover for confining said loose ma- The glove shown in the drawings is of the terial in place embracing said loose material well-known type in which a palm portion and and the edge of the body portion, the sides of a back portion are separably connected tosaid cover being stitched together through gether, so as to permit of the insertion and said body portion on the inner edge of the removal of the complete pad. Heretofore ring, substantially as described.

these pads have been generally made of a In testimony whereof I affix my signature plurality of layzrpr of feljtl with a portifon cut in presence of two witnesses.

out or remove om t e center to orm a recess or pocket. With a glove or body in JOHN GAMBLE this form of pad there is considerable soft- Witnesses:

ness or pufiiness on the outer edges adjacent EDWIN K. DAVIS,

' to the pocket, which is very objectionable RANDALL E. THOMPSON. 

